News and Current Events

C-Span Classroom
http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/

CNN Student News
http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/index.html

Teaching About Current Events
http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/15/my-view-how-we-talk-about-guns-in-my-chicago-classroom/

NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/

NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/

Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/

USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/

BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/

ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/

World News
http://wn.com/

Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/

Time
http://www.time.com/time/
Time Explains videos - on current events
http://search.time.com/results.html?cmd=tags&D=%22time+explains%22&sid=13CEA651E595&Ntt=%22time+explains%22&internalid=endeca_dimension&p=0&N=112&Nty=1

The Poverty Line
What it means to be poor
http://www.thepovertyline.net/map